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The Mission of God: Keeping Church Leadership Focused on the External Mission

As church leaders, it is crucial to maintain an external focus on the God-given mission to ensure church health. Failure to do so can lead to mission confusion. Explore the macro approach to church leadership to discover the overarching mission of God. Learn how to prioritize the mission over internal matters for fruitful results.

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The Mission of God: Keeping Church Leadership Focused on the External Mission

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  1. THE MISSION OF GOD • Les Welk • Network Leader

  2. Losing Focus

  3. As church leaders, we need to correctly understand, safeguard, and maintain focus upon our God-given mission

  4. “external focus” vs. “internal focus” “leadership for results begins outside, not inside the organization.” “macro vs. micro”

  5. 97% of the world has heard of Coke 72% have seen a bottle or a can of Coke 51% have tasted Coke

  6. Failure to recognize a compelling, outward focus as a key to church health and leadership typically results in what I would refer to as… “mission confusion”

  7. When pastors and boards take an external/macro approach to church leadership, it will lead to the inevitable discovery of a common, overarching mission “The Mission of God”

  8. “I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers, and I will keep my covenant with you. You will be eating last year’s harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new. I will put my dwelling place among you and be your God, and you will be my people.” Lev. 26:9-12

  9. I will be your God You will be my people I will dwell in your midst Lev. 26:9-12

  10. Being missional has less to do with “how,” and more to do with “why”

  11. The Mission of God How are you doing as a Church at “keeping the mission the main thing?”

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